Quote by Norman Mailer
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I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood. – Norman Mailer

Other quotes by Norman Mailer

There are four stages in a marriage. First theres the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. – Norman Mailer

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Marriage
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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. – Norman Mailer

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Majority
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The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. – Norman Mailer

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Other Quotes from
Writing
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Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. – Jerome Stern, Making Shapely Fiction, 1991

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Writing

A metaphor is like a simile. – Author Unknown

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Writing

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. – Washington Irving

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Writing

Some authors write with a grave ink, of a dramatic pen dipped into their dark souls. – Terri Guillemets

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Writing

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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film. – Vin Diesel

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Faith

Vision may sometimes sleep in the sun, while it wakens to widest revelation in utter darkness. Thus I am rapt in a trance-like acceptance of opening cavernous depths, crypts of decyphered gloom, yielding hollows of velvet obscurity that go down, down to the roots of things. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the Ne

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Perspective

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect – they are much more interesting. – Marc Jacobs

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Beauty

For love is immortality. – Emily Dickinson

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Love